Quotes About Superiority

I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.

How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in the world and in his intimacy, a man whose heart remains open and whose truth remains strong.

Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

Dalmatians are not only superior to other dogs, they are like all dogs, infinitely less stupid than men.

I decided that you didn't really need money, power, success, religion, a spouse, or kids to be happy. All you really needed was to feel superior.

No doubt about it, we're smarter than every other living creature that ever ran, crawled, or slithered on Earth. But how smart is that?

The Olympics owes its existence to the search for people who perform faster, higher, and stronger among us. Standardized exams, game shows, beauty contests, talent auditions, and the Forbes 400 all pit humans against humans, in rank order. Society offers hundreds, if not thousands of ways to show you're better than others.

the FBI philosophy is, 'Whatever makes any other law enforcement agency or institution look bad makes us look better.

What the complacent Russians forgot was that their strengths – above all, their technological superiority – were not a permanent monopoly conferred by Providence on people with white skin. There was in fact nothing biological to prevent Asians from adopting Western forms of economic and political organization, nor from replicating Western inventions. The first Asian country to work out how to do so was Japan.

Differences between the conduct of the multitude and the conduct of the princes do not derive from differences in their nature, that being the same in both (though if there be some superiority either way, it will be found on the side of the people); rather, they derive from differences in their respect for the laws under which they live.

Artists who shared (Paul) Klee's fundamental beliefs, such as (Piet) Mondrian, were searching for universal truths, often derived from nature and having all-mighty power. For some, a traditional notion of God was part of this; for others, it was of no consequence. What mattered was not the precise character of the object of worship, but the shared belief in its superiority to the cult of self. (104)

The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status by having their own...

It is very difficult to love people who are good to us: it is easier to imagine we are loving people we can condescend to.

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.